• But the fact is that economics has played a decisive role in all of them.

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  • But in an interview with Newsweek and Associated Press Radio she denied having a decisive role.

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  • Science and technology play a decisive role in better protecting and sharing resources and preventing risks associated with water.

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  • He played a decisive role in rebuilding San Francisco after the 1906 earthquake.

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  • Senior rebel commanders are said to have played a decisive role in the drawing-up of Hadep's list of candidates.

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  • The warrior spirit, so evident Sunday night, plays a decisive role in the lives of line soldiers and their commanders.

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  • There remains to them only one way of playing a decisive role in the world: that is to unite Europe...

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  • The United States was proud to play a decisive role, especially in the early days, and then in a supporting capacity.

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  • In Kansas, where Triad Management was especially active, the funds may have played a decisive role in four of six federal races.

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  • These troops played a decisive role in the success of the surge.

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  • To take up this challenge, UNESCO has a decisive role to play.

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  • And Governor Jeb Bush would have to sign the bill, playing a decisive role in the election despite his pledge to stay out.

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  • Anek Laothamatas, the former leader of the Mahachon party in Thailand, argues that businessmen have played a decisive role in his country since the 1980s.

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  • In the London contest, union block votes played a decisive role in handing the nomination to Frank Dobson despite more people having voted for his rival, Ken Livingstone.

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  • The committee has urged the government to set a deadline for coal-fired power stations to adopt CCS, which it says could play a decisive role in reducing carbon emissions.

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  • Mr Cakici (now in a French jail, resisting extradition) is said to have played a decisive role in the bidding for a bank sold by Mr Yilmaz's government to a scandal-tainted businessman.

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  • During the second of these incarnations, it played a decisive role in shaping the national security platform and policies that would be adopted first by Candidate and then by President Ronald Reagan.

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  • Larsson spent two years in Spain and played a decisive role in this year's Champions League final when he came on in the second half and set up both goals in the defeat of Arsenal.

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  • Both campaigns know that just a single electoral vote could play a decisive role in what's expected to be a historically close race, and that makes what happens in the event of an Electoral College tie all the more intriguing.

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  • As the chief policeman for unfair state aid in the 27-country EU, he will also play a decisive role in the overhaul of troubled Spanish banks and the setting up of a new, powerful banking supervisor for the euro zone.

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  • They have played a decisive role in dozens of environmental victories, from the phasing out of lead in petrol in the 1970s to stopping the navy in 2003 from using a sonar system that would have deafened or even killed whales.

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  • But when Suharto announced a budget in January that flouted earlier pledges to the IMF, telephone calls from his ASEAN colleagues as well as U.S. President Bill Clinton and Japanese Prime Minister Hashimoto Ryutaro are thought to have played a decisive role in persuading him to sign a revised agreement to make tough reforms.

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  • If it remains as benign as it appears now, it could play a decisive peace-making role in an increasingly fiery continent.

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  • The presidential election of 2008 was the first one in which Latinos played a large, and perhaps decisive, role.

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  • They went back in front through Contepomi's penalty two minutes after the re-start and the Argentina playmaker soon added another to make it 12-6 before playing a important role as the hosts grabbed the decisive score.

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  • In line with a vow he had made to himself as a young man to remain inscrutable to all but his most intimate friends, he cultivated a cold, haughty manner in public and refused to countenance any questions about his often decisive role in the family business.

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